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...Harry S. Truman Library contains 9.3 million documents, the Franklin D. Roosevelt 22 million, the Dwight D. Eisenhower 15.5 million, the Herbert Hoover 4.6 million, and the as yet unbuilt John F. Kennedy Library will contain 17 million documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: The L.B.J. Library | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

...Burriss Young, assistant dean of Freshmen; Dwight D. Miller, senior adviser to Freshmen; and Lawrence F. Stevens, assistant to Dean Dunlop, all said they saw Bagot shouting and chanting at the "Counter Teach...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: CRR Panels Hear Charges Against 11 More Students | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

ELWOOD QUESADA, the first Federal Aviation Administrator, was excited at the end of his conversation with Dwight Eisenhower. The first reporter to find out why was TIME'S Jerry Hannifin. "I've just seen the President," Quesada told him, "and he's approved the commercial Mach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 5, 1971 | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

What about, for example, the aphasics of the counterculture? The ad writer may dingdong catch phrases like Pavlov's bells in order to produce saliva. The Movement propagandist rings his chimes ("Fascist!" "Pig!" "Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Tattletale Gray. Many marketers are rushing in with phosphate-free detergents under brand names like Valley Dew, Nature and Concern. Sears, Roebuck is selling Sears Non Polluting Laundry Detergent; Purex is promoting Instant Pels; and Church & Dwight is out with Arm & Hammer Laundry Detergent. North American Chemical is distributing its Ecolo-G in almost every state. A magazine specializing in product information, Consumer Bulletin, reports that Ecolo-G is "not recommended," largely because of its poor performance in soft water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTS: As the Soapers' World Turns | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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